I am a psychology major and I interviewed my psychology teacher, Dr. Covill to learn about what types of writing she does. I learned that she is more than just a professor because she writes numerous amounts of research papers. She loves learning and she is passionate about what she teaches. This is Dr. Covill’s 7th year as a professor at Bloomsburg. She teaches 3 different courses here. Her lowest level class is Early Childhood Development and that is the class that I have with her. She teaches Early Childhood Cognitive Development and another course exclusively for psychology majors called Cognitive Psychology.
As a Psychologist and a professor she does a lot of writing. As a professor she writes her class lessons and for this she writes a paragraph to help her before all of her lectures that she memorizes, so she can teach it to the classes. So since she teaches 3 classes she will write 3 different paragraphs before each of the classes. Her professional writing mainly consists of research for the APA. The APA is the American Psychological Association. These research papers that Dr. Covill writes are very difficult and challenging because they are typically 40 or 50 pages long and she uses about 60 sources.
The purpose of Dr. Covill’s writing for the APA is to report her research results about writing instruction. The paragraphs that she writes before her classes or lectures are to help prepare her to teach her students. The audience that Dr. Covill is writing her research papers for includes any professional scholars interested in writing instruction and psychologists. The writing that she does before her classes is intended for her students, obviously.
While Dr. Covill writes her research papers she learns a tremendous amount of information and clarity about what she already knows. While she writes down her thoughts they become clearer. When she was explaining this to me I could tell that she loves learning and she enjoys what she does.
The research article that she admires is called “Cognition as a Collaborative Process” and the author is Barbara Rogoff. She had recently talked about this article in one of her classes. She likes the article because it contained a great amount of information and revealed an extremely interesting way of thinking about cognitive development.
Although I am a psychology major, I am unsure of what I really want to do when I graduate. After the interview I had time to think about everything I had just learned and I realized that there are so many different things a person can do in my major. There are so many different topics you can focus on and it basically blew my mind. I still don’t know what I want to do, but I feel better about it because there is a wide variety of options out there and endless possibilities for me.
As a Psychologist and a professor she does a lot of writing. As a professor she writes her class lessons and for this she writes a paragraph to help her before all of her lectures that she memorizes, so she can teach it to the classes. So since she teaches 3 classes she will write 3 different paragraphs before each of the classes. Her professional writing mainly consists of research for the APA. The APA is the American Psychological Association. These research papers that Dr. Covill writes are very difficult and challenging because they are typically 40 or 50 pages long and she uses about 60 sources.
The purpose of Dr. Covill’s writing for the APA is to report her research results about writing instruction. The paragraphs that she writes before her classes or lectures are to help prepare her to teach her students. The audience that Dr. Covill is writing her research papers for includes any professional scholars interested in writing instruction and psychologists. The writing that she does before her classes is intended for her students, obviously.
While Dr. Covill writes her research papers she learns a tremendous amount of information and clarity about what she already knows. While she writes down her thoughts they become clearer. When she was explaining this to me I could tell that she loves learning and she enjoys what she does.
The research article that she admires is called “Cognition as a Collaborative Process” and the author is Barbara Rogoff. She had recently talked about this article in one of her classes. She likes the article because it contained a great amount of information and revealed an extremely interesting way of thinking about cognitive development.
Although I am a psychology major, I am unsure of what I really want to do when I graduate. After the interview I had time to think about everything I had just learned and I realized that there are so many different things a person can do in my major. There are so many different topics you can focus on and it basically blew my mind. I still don’t know what I want to do, but I feel better about it because there is a wide variety of options out there and endless possibilities for me.